10/06/2014 The Papers

players on the tennis court on the day Amelie Mauresmo begins her role

as Andy Murray's coach. That's all in 15 minutes. But first The Papers.

Hello and welcome to our look ahead to all the papers. With me is the

trade minister Sir Digby Jones and broadcaster John. The metro

dedicates the whole of its front page to the increasing pressure

being put on Sepp Blatter to resign. The Telegraph warns that millions of

over 50s could risk, their health as they follow new NHS guidance telling

them to take statins. they follow new NHS guidance telling

them The express goes with the they follow new NHS guidance telling

them The express goes with same story, saying medics are at war over

the usage and to issue statins to healthy people. While The Guardian

says men in Asia are being kept as slaves to work on fishing boats in

Thailand. The seafood they harvest is being sold to supermarkets,

including Walmart and Tesco. The Daily Mail is leading on the fallout

from a major backlog of passport applications. While the mirror is

leading with Ofgem's calls for energy suppliers to cut costs for

householders following a drop in the price of wholesale gas and

electricity. We will start with the Telegraph, army cuts casts doubts on

action abroad, it has been petit basset Riz in its campaign against

army cuts. `` pretty the Severus. On the front, the Duke of Edinburgh,

93, you know, happy birthday. He did say, I don't want anyone to wish me

any happier returns. So shut up and get on with the army cuts! I think

this is quite good lobbying. It is a service that is dangerously below

strength, and what has happened is that they are all being cut so badly

and deeply that the army right to say, if you cut us anymore after the

general election, we can't fight your wars for you. The navy are

already there, but if you add up the amalgam of the 1914 commemorations,

the First World War seen as an army war, Afghanistan, although there

were Royal Marines and navy medics, it is seen as an army war. The army

do a really good PR job, and they are doing it again in the Telegraph

today. My worry from this, and it is excellently put by one source, the

Government is trying to blame the Army for failing to deliver on its

drastic cuts to the defence budget. The real culprits are the ministers

who have tried to implement an unrealistic programme without giving

proper thought to the consequences of their actions. Politicians tend

to say, we will go and do this, then they think, how are we going to do

it? You're going to end up, Great Britain, with an army that does not

have the people, a navy that does not have ships, and we will not be

able to fulfil what politicians say, a very serious issue. Henry, better

cooperation with other forces, we are a member of NATO, all trying to

build the European fighter, we are going to be much more cohesive with

other countries in putting forward a military deterrent, so cuts are in a

`` inevitable, and they? You would think so, but this will be meat and

drink to Government backbenchers. But it has to be seen as punching

above its weight on the international scene, so when people

look at the major powers in the world, the members of the Security

Council, Britain has to have a very big army. That is what they are

saying, but David Cameron, who has the responsibility to look at all of

this and balance the books, they will be saying, we cannot afford all

of this. I want to be able to say that William Hague is back there

with Angelina Jolie trying to end rape as an act of war, or what we

are doing in Syria, eastern Ukraine, but deep down, although Britain no

longer has an empire, it wants to act as though it does. It is a

difficult one for the Government. That is a very left wing view, to

say to me, it is because we have not got an empire! It is because we have

values of freedom and independence and choice. And equality! Some of

these are good... That is why we do it, not because of empire. It is an

overhang! Having a big strong army and air force is being part of seen

as a colossus on the international scene. 25 or 30 years ago I agree

with you... Gordon Brown and Tony Blair wanted to do this, Gordon

Brown... If you see something happening which is against the

values this nation polls, which has got nothing to do with empire and

everything to do with treating human beings... Having a very large army

is an overhang of being a great maritime nation. If you want your

elected politicians of any party to stand up for the values that we

espouse, don't expect them to do it if they have not got the guns and

ships and tanks to do it. That is all I am saying. Sometimes these

things are good, I supported intervention in Sierra Leone,

absolutely. We could not do it today. It does not mean what I am

saying is wrong. Time out, time`out! Let's talk about schools. Henry,

Church of England schools will open doors to all, on the front of the

Daily Telegraph. All eyes are on Birmingham because of the Trojan

horse story, and the battle between the Education Secretary and the Home

Secretary over extremism, and we know what Ofsted said about that.

You can link this story to the Church of England beast in the Daily

Telegraph tomorrow, and their chief education officer. `` peace. He

wants to expand the number of primary places available, because

there is going to be a boom in the number of places needed, something

like 130,000, and Christians cannot expect preferential treatment. At

the moment, if you want to get your child into a faith school, a

Christian school, you try to be seen at church, the vicar knows about you

and job more likely to get in. `` and you are more likely to get in.

This reverend is now saying that is going to change and people of all

faiths and none will be eligible for entry, their children will be able

to go. A change in policy, Digby, that comes off the back of what we

have seen in Birmingham and Ofsted. Is there a sense that the Church of

England felt it had to do this? I don't know. What I would say that I

think it is good politics with a small P. It is absolutely where they

should be, basically saying, we are in society, community, we are not

going to be judgment. That is so left wing! This is about Anglican

values. Anglican values are not a right wing! There used to be. No,

they are not! How judgemental! I think it is an excellent way, a

counterpoint, saying, what you should be doing as a religious

power, if that is right, community, that is a good word. What they

should be doing is reaching out to everybody, opening up, and being

seen as a force for good and inclusion, rather than as a bigoted

isolationist thing. So I think it is quite good politics. I suppose you

will be able to fulfil your core values and teach children according

to the purposes that you were set up for... Years and years ago, this is

second`hand, but inevitably Tony Blair used to go to Brompton oratory

when he was Prime Minister, Catholic, but he did not do, as

Alistair Campbell said, religion, and he got a letter from some senior

Catholic saying, you are not Catholic. Of course, won't embarrass

you, but I wonder what Jesus have thought! What is it that religions

are there for? Sorry, Clive! We're going to go onto another story.

Talking about religion, we are going to talk about football! Greg Dyke

urges Sepp Blatter to go. We are talking about the Football

Association chairman, Greg Dyke, who was out in Brazil, as is the FIFA

football family, and Sepp Blatter, the president, who wants a further

six or seven years, he's been told increasingly by some of the European

football powers that he should go, that he has presided over the rot,

that the Sunday Times story essentially has highlighted the

problem with corruption in FIFA, and he has done nothing about it, and

people are saying these superannuated and needs to go.

However, he has a lot of support from developing nations, in the

Middle East and Africa, who think he has taken a football to zones where

it was not a major sport. He made sure the World Cup was taken to

South Africa, and this is one of the reasons... That is where his power

base is, with the developing countries, and effectively Greg Dyke

said to Sepp Blatter, you played the race card yesterday, in claiming

that the allegations against the Qatar bid of corruption and so forth

were racist, and he got a standing ovation from the delegates, FIFA

delegates from Europe. I think we are witnessing a schism, and it

isn't about whether they are European, or Anglo`Saxon,

footballers or associations. I think this is a difference in values,

which is there is a different value about corruption, whatever that word

may mean, about influence, about the politics of it, in Africa, in Latin

America, than there is in Western Europe. Are you sure about that?

Isn't that it is very subtle in Western Europe? It is all about

lobbying, when they come to London, the red carpet is rolled out, no

expense spared. I don't know any more than you but I would not think

Sepp Blatter has got the brown paper envelope out and given something to

the Football Federation. It doesn't work like that. And, if I may, just

three cheers for democracy! One of the things the press does do in

Western Europe is they investigate and that is how you get the Sunday

Time story. All a saying is, you are reaching the schism, because he is

playing this brilliantly, Sepp Blatter, because he is going to a

defence set of values, and I choose my words carefully, a different set

of values, and I will champion you, and they love him. And then the

people who perhaps don't walk down that path are saying, we will not

have this. You cannot call it corruption until it is alleged and

I'm not going into the allegation, but the concept of one group of

countries in football walking down a path that is utterly different to

another group of countries, and somebody trying... Well, doing it

brilliantly, actually, playing this off against each other. He calls

people racist without a single shred of evidence! But if you do remember

a few years ago when there was a huge football row, erases a row, in

Italy, and he himself said, this is not racism, just sort it out with a

handshake. `` a racism row. So his notion... I agree with you. It is a

political issue and it is one man's sweetener. You tell that to Ken

Clarke and The Bribery Act! You tell that to every businessman and

businesswoman. A sweetener and you go to prison for it! Let's very

quickly get onto the supermarket slave trade. This. I applaud The

Guardian for this. It is journalism at its best. The only way you are

going to stop whether it is slaves, awful conditions in textile mills in

Bangladesh, the real way to stop this is to get the true customers,

the supermarkets in the Western world, refusing to buy of these

people. So this is fish and shrimp and fall is caught in the Far East

by workers who are said she slaves. And then sold to supermarkets. Yes,

and no matter what you try to do... They are essentially tricked. Bought

and sold by about `` for about ?240. They can sometimes be in debt

bondage for about 20 years and they could even be executed or killed at

sea. It is shocking but the fish meal that they farm or manage to

harvest ends up being used and ends up in the food chain and we end up

buying it. And the real power of this is that the supermarkets are so

powerful, they could stop this by just not buying it. I just have to

say, Tesco has said, we regard slavery as completely unacceptable.

We are working with one of the firms to make sure the supply chain is

slavery free. Morrisons has said the same thing and the Co`op as well. So

they are responding to this. The question is, will consumers vote

with their feet or with price? Yes, but the real power comes with the

retailers because they have the power of purchase. Thank you so

much, guys. I am exhausted and I haven't said anything! It was meant

to be like this. Thank you very much indeed! Stay with us. Much more

coming up at the top of the hour. Certainly on that situation in

Iraq, where militants have taken the second city. But now it is time for

Sportsday. Good evening and welcome to

Sportsday. UEFA make their voice heard of a number of European

football chiefs urged Sepp Blatter to step down as FIFA